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Charles Handy Russell
Charles Handy Russell (September 13, 1796 – January 21, 1884) was a prominent American merchant and banker with the National Bank of Commerce in New York. Early life Russell was born on September 13, 1796, in Newport, Rhode Island. He was the third child and second son of Ann (née Handy) Russell and Maj. Thomas Russell, who served in the Continental Army under the Marquis de Lafayette and was a descendant of Elder William Brewster, a ''Mayflower'' passenger''.'' His maternal grandfather was Charles Handy, a prominent merchant and landowner from Newport. Through his uncle Johnathan Russell, he was a first cousin of Jonathan Russell, a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and U.S. Minister to Stockholm who was one of the five commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Ghent with Great Britain in 1814, ending the War of 1812. His father died in 1801, leaving his mother with four young children to care for. They moved to Bristol and stayed there until his mother's death in 180 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sidney Mount
William Sidney Mount (November 26, 1807 – November 19, 1868) was a 19th-century American genre painter. Born in Setauket in 1807, Mount spent much of his life in his hometown and the adjacent village of Stony Brook, where he painted portraits, landscapes, and scenes inspired by daily life from the 1820s until his death in 1868 at the age of sixty. During that time he achieved fame in the U.S. and Europe as a painter who chronicled rural life on Long Island. He was the first native-born American artist to specialize in genre painting. Mount was also passionate about music and a fiddle player, a composer and collector of songs, and designed and patented several versions of his own violin which he named the "Cradle of Harmony." Many of his paintings also feature musicians and groups of people engaged in dance in rural settings. Biography Early life Mount was born November 26, 1807, in the village of Setauket, New York, on the north shore of eastern Long Island to parents Julia Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |